Hi, this is a test from 2022, not done anything with websites or blog for yearsI am not convinced they are wanted/needed anymore…life, the universe and everything has changed Have had a server hard disk fail – and it was unfortunately the one that had all the website and stuff on, and I have salvaged …

So the eve of the last day of 2017… In summary – kit car is about to go back on the road after a 6 year (?) layup, hoping its going to back roadworthy (and more importantly reliable) by spring – looking forward to taking the lad out in it Tinkered with a few electric …

Pow! just checking into this creaky old blog It has been a while! UPS batts died (and was a drama to get working replacements) Printer died (and was also a VERY stressful experience) At least I have found 3 or 4 companies I will NEVER use again…sigh Not really played with the servers for a …

New HP Microserver running Bit faster than the PI Head nearly exploded from tech hitches migrating…but if your reading this its a good thing  

Well, the Raspberry PI has done a stirling job of hosting this website and blog – along with all the other back end stuff I have thrust upon it, but its time to go back to traditional fan cooled hardware with proper physical disks I have just unwrapped a HP Proliant N54L and am going …

Just to let you know I haven’t died…just not had time to update the blog or website 2015 came and went The 250 and 450 heli’s have had their moments and have taken their fair share of dirt naps but thankfully the incident rate is getting less – looking forward to calmer weather and dryer …